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It is not my intention to pursue the stars. The goal is deciphering the meanings behind the rongorongo glyphs. But to reach that goal it is - I believe - necessary to see the time-space framework they saw. I think they saw the stars and connected them together into a whole.

For instance, did the Chinese recognize Phaed (γ Ursae Majoris) as '... Tien Ke, another Armillary Sphere ...' And the Arabs said '... Al Falidh, the Thigh ...' which I 'translate' as a 'limb' in the total structure of the sky.

Once the time-space framework was 'seen' and understood, with the equinoxes and solstices rotating slowly over ca 26,000 years. The connections between the main parts of the framework appeared clearly.

It was therefore easy to invert the poles and describe the North Star, α Ursae Minoris, as Ana-nia, a pillar-to-fish-by, after having crossed the equator. South was now up and Ana-nia was in the deepest part of the 'water'.

The old custom to let Neptun onboard to 'baptize' those who hadn't crossed the equator earlier becomes more understandable in this perspective.

If GD26 (tara hoi)

was used as a symbol for a node in the time-space framework, then two ideas emerge:

1. We see a great marine creature surfacing. 2. We see a creature of the dark.

In Tahua GD26 appears more frequently on side b than on side a (13 times out of the total 18), which suggests a creature of the dark:

I have thought about GD26 as equivalent to Scorpio:

'... A Scorpion-Man plays also another part in the cosmology of the Babylonians. The Scorpion-Man and his wife guard the gate leading to the Maśu mountain(s), and watch the sun at rising and setting. Their upper part reaches to the sky, and their irtu (breast?) to the lower regions (Epic of Gistubar 60,9). After Gistubar has traversed the Maśu Mountain, he reaches the sea ...

... the Scorpion-Men are to be imagined at the boundary between land and sea, upper and lower world, and in such a way that the upper or human portion belongs to the upper region, and the lower, the Scorpion body, to the lower. Hence the Scorpion-Man represents the boundary between light and darkness, between the firm land and the water region of the world ...

... If my suggestion be admitted that the Babylonians dealt not with the daily fight but the yearly fight between light and darkness - that is, the antithesis between day and night was expanded into the antithesis between the summer and the winter halves of the year - then it is clear that at the vernal equinox Scorpio setting in the west would be watching the sunrise; at the autumnal equinox rising in the east, it would be watching the sunset ...

... If this be so, all obscurity disappears, and we have merely a very beautiful statement of a fact, from which we learn that the time to which the fact applied was about 3000 B.C., if the sun were then near the Pleiades ...'

If GD26 is equivalent to Scorpio, then we should investigate the equinoxes and Scorpio as seen from south of the equator. In Tahiti Antares, α Scorpii, was called Ana-mua, the entrance pillar.

In South America Scorpio was seen as a 'big snake' (flying high in the air, presumably).

Scorpio is nowadays marking summer solstice (south of the equator). If the Tahitian knew what they were doing, Ana-mua therefore should mark the entrance into the 2nd half of the year. Defining the North Star, α Ursae Minoris, as Ana-nia, a pillar-to-fish-by, should imply that Antares, Ana-mua, is high in the sky.

From this we arrive at the important conclusion that the Tahitian 10 'pillars' were used for the period from summer solstice to winter solstice. No such 'pillars' were evidently needed for the 1st half of the year. Presumably the sun did the job of pushing up the sky roof quite well on his own.

Some 6,500 years ago (26,000 / 4) Scorpio was 90° more to the right in the chart below. Alternatively we can imagine shifting the solar zenith 'wave' to the left and see that 'the big snake' was hovering above the point where sun was 'inhabiting' (as defined by its heliacal rising) Scorpio at spring equinox:

North of the equator it would have been autumn equinox. Having like this defined Scorpio at autumn equinox (some 6,500 years ago), we immediately recognize Columba at spring equinox.

Returning to a point south of the equator and turning the cog-wheels of time up to nowadays the 'big snake' (Scorpio, GD26) must be flying in the air and the 'barbecue' (Columba) be located high above the deepest part of the 'water'. If something should be grilled, it must be a fish.

In Old Babylonia the Scorpion-Men were 'imagined at the boundary between land and sea, upper and lower world, and in such a way that the upper or human portion belongs to the upper region, and the lower, the Scorpion body, to the lower.

Hence the Scorpion-Man represents the boundary between light and darkness, between the firm land and the water region of the world ...'

At autumn equinox the upper human half was above the water line and the lower scorpion part below. In GD26 the opposite is depicted on side a of Tahua:

The lower half of the GD26 glyphs is, it seems, fetched from GD52 (kai) in 8 of the glyphs (red-marked):

In 8 other (black-marked) glyphs we have instead, it seems, the lower half fetched from GD62 (atua mago):

2 of the glyphs are left as blue-marked, because there is neither a foot nor a tail at the bottom end.

We can summarize these results in a table: